I know the feeling, Tom!
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We have both types of music, country AND western.
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The Rocky Horror Show is an acquired taste and I only have acquired taste for odd bits of it. Seeing it with the audience participation in a cinema is an experience people should do at least once. I’ve done it. No need to repeat it even if it was 43 years ago.
This is something I find that needs congratulating. I can’t play but if I could then I really doubt I could play stuff I dislike. Even for money!
A simply brilliant line followed by wonderful expressions of doubt on Elwood Blues’ face (Dan Aykroyd).
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Spoken like a true muso…
If you make your living in the world of music, then you soon find a way to suspend your artistic principles for the promise of £££s!
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I grew up in London and saw Rocky Horror live on the Kings Road, Chelsea in 1973 with Tim Curry. Thought every part was great!!
Nostalgic cinema as it’s where I watched Saturday morning films including many really bad westerns in the 60s.
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I genuinely enjoy playing when I’m earning. The genre doesn’t matter, so long as the scores are written well and the band is tight. If I’m not earning, I get bored playing very quickly!
My preferred genres for listening used to be hard rock and jazz. I say used to be because I hardly ever listen to music for pleasure any more. I do listen to plenty of music, but always for the purposes of learning a song for an upcoming gig, or writing arrangements for theatre shows or cruise ship bands.
Music is work, so I don’t listen to it outside of work times. In the car travelling to and from gigs, it’s always Radio 4 or Radio 5, Test Match Special or podcasts from BBC Sounds.
But I love my job, love playing, and that includes music I would have never have chosen to listen to!
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I think I understand your viewpoint, Tom, your approach is very utilitarian, professional. Now though I used long ago to earn money playing in orchestras for everything from opera to musicals ( and if I never hear Joseph again it will be too soon!) improvising a jazz solo was almost an out of body experience - sometimes more than almost! Nowadays as a listener and with the support of the net I am exploring a wider world of music than I could have imagined forty years ago, eastern Europe, South America, the Far East, wonderful things happening everywhere! Yet so much of it is short winded, two, three or four minutes and on to the next one, sometimes I want a cathedral rather than an urban flat and I go back to the 20th century symphonists. Yes, music is or can be work - particularly when you are learning! - but it is woven tightly into the fabric of my soul, as essential as eating or drinking. As they say, different strokes…
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While I do dislike the whole Rocky Horror thing, the score is brilliant, and I’d definitely enjoy being in the pit for that show.
Anyway, work takes me to GM in the first two weeks of September. 5 shows with the Diana Ross Story and 3 with Drag Me To Broadway. Also headlining the Sausage & Cider Festival in Dundee with Royal Rhapsody (Queen tribute). Scouting For Girls (the real one) are our support act lol!
Dates/venues on the show websites if you want to watch me enjoying performing music I wouldn’t listen to Andy!!!
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I find the fact you can do this quite fascinating Tom. I suppose I can apply your comments back to when I was paid to write software. There were some things that were fun and enjoyable to do and the fact I was paid to do something enjoyable was a bonus.Which corresponds to well written/tight band condition in your case. And lots of task/jobs that were tedious and seemed to drag on interminably.
I’ll check out the artists/dates and see if our paths can cross at normals, align or maybe become asymptotic over the coming weeks! 
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